Gigable

24/08/2026

This Friday, 31 August, is the last day workers who were automatically enrolled in My Future Fund on 1 January can choose to opt out.
After that, the next window doesn't open until 2029.

That's a decision sitting with your workers, but it creates an employer-side moment worth paying attention to.

Here's what Irish businesses managing shift-based workforces should have clear right now:

→ Auto-enrolment applies to PAYE employees aged 23–60 earning €20,000 or more. Your obligation as an employer is to match their 1.5% contribution on top of the minimum wage increase, and PRSI costs already live this year.

→ Variable-hours staff, seasonal workers, and anyone paid through your payroll who meets the threshold are all included. Not just full-time permanent staff.

→ Genuine independent contractors, self-employed workers operating outside of PAYE, are not in scope. But that only holds if your records clearly show they are genuinely self-employed. The classification must be accurate and documented.

The distinction between those two categories has never mattered more than it does in August 2026. Revenue is enforcing worker classification post-Karshan. Auto-enrolment adds another layer of cost to anyone classified as an employee. And the businesses without clean records of how each worker is engaged are carrying both exposures at once.

✅ If your shift workforce is structured correctly and your records show it clearly - this week's deadline is noise, not a problem.

❌ If you're not sure what your records actually show, that's the conversation worth having now.

Gigable is built for exactly that - automatically creating shift logs, attendance records, and payment trails for every contractor engagement, so the structure is documented from day one, not assembled after the fact

Have a look at how it works, or drop us a message if you want to talk through how your workforce is set up

31/07/2026

Today is a milestone we're proud to celebrate.

Eight years of powering flexible work.

Eight years of opportunities created, businesses supported, and relationships built.

What started with a simple belief - that work should be judged on merit, not background, and that flexibility shouldn't mean going without real support has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.

Today, that belief looks like:
🔹 1,051 merchants using Gigable to keep shifts covered
🔹 22,068 freelancers picking up flexible work through the platform
🔹 242,742 gigs fulfilled to date
🔹 €25 million paid directly to freelancers

But the numbers only tell part of the story.

Behind every shift is a business that kept trading.
A freelancer who found new opportunities.
A relationship built on trust.
A team that kept moving.

We've heard what that means firsthand from the businesses we work with every day
→ operators who no longer worry about day-to-day driver management
→ franchise owners with confidence that the right records are already there
→ and finance teams with the visibility they need

That's what eight years of believing in people, merit, and opportunity can build.

To every merchant, freelancer, partner, and member of the Gigable team,
Thank you for being part of the journey.

Here's to the next chapter.

8 Years Powering Flexible Work.

29/07/2026

To every freelancer who's ever picked up a shift through Gigable - this one's for you.

Every early alarm.

Every new venue walked into for the first time.

Every skill picked up on the job - patience behind a counter, precision on the road, calm under pressure during a rush.

Every connection made along the way - the regular who remembers your order, the manager who calls you back for the next shift.

That's not just a shift.
That's a career being built, one gig at a time.

Eight years ago, we set out to build a platform where that could happen
→ where equal opportunity means people from different backgrounds get a fair shot
→ where the work you do matters more than where you started
→ and where flexibility comes with real backing: savings, wellbeing support, and protection, not just a paycheck.

Over the last 8 years, we've never stopped building on that belief.
🔹 758 freelancers have used their Gigable benefits to save on everyday essentials - with benefits available to every freelancer on the platform.
🔹 2,528 have been redeemed, delivering €20,258.99 in savings.
🔹 660 fuel cards issued, helping drivers save an average of €90 a year at the pump
🔹 7 support claims have been paid for accident and injury, family leave, and compassionate leave when people needed them most.

Today, 22,068 freelancers continue to pick up shifts through Gigable across hospitality, delivery, logistics, events, security, and many more industries.

You picked up the gigs. You built the relationships. You made flexible work what it is today.

8 Years Powering Flexible Work - because of you.

Thank you for being part of the journey.
Here's to what's next.

27/07/2026

27/07/2026

Eight years ago, we believed something simple: that businesses shouldn't have to choose between staying staffed and staying sane.

We'd seen it too many times that good operators buried under admin, chasing hours and payments across scattered records just to keep the doors open.

We believed there was a better way - one where
➞ hiring without agency markups
➞ managing teams without five WhatsApp groups
➞ and every shift automatically leaving a clear record behind it.
Because that's simply how flexible work should be managed.

So we built it.

Long before compliance became a bigger conversation, we believed businesses deserved better visibility, better records, and less admin. As expectations around contractor compliance have grown, those foundations have become even more valuable for the merchants we support.

Today, 1,051 merchants run their shift-based teams through Gigable - across hospitality and food service, bakeries and cafés, security services, event staffing, delivery and logistics, and parking operations.
🔹 Businesses who no longer worry about day-to-day contractor management.
🔹 Owners who sleep better knowing the records are already there.
🔹 Teams who have found, in Gigable, something closer to a partner than a platform.

None of this would have been possible without the thousands of freelancers who have completed shifts, the merchants who trusted us with their operations, and the Gigable team who have spent the last eight years building, improving, and supporting every step of the journey.

We believed there was a better way.
We built it.
Eight years later, the mission hasn't changed.

8 Years Powering Flexible Work.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey so far. Here's to what's next.

22/07/2026

This month, Gigable turns 8.

Eight years ago, Gigable started with a simple belief: work should be judged on merit, not background; and flexibility shouldn't mean going without real support.

We kept seeing the same two-sided problem.
🔎 Businesses buried in admin just to keep shifts covered.
🔎 Freelancers doing great work with no real relationship behind it, no visibility, and no safety net if something went wrong.

So we built Gigable around three ideas we still hold to today:
→ Equal opportunity - everyone gets a fair shot, whatever their background
→ Meritocracy - you're judged on the work you do, and nothing else
→ Real relationships - trust between freelancers, businesses, and us, not just transactions

Eight years later, those same principles continue to shape every shift, every partnership and every opportunity created through Gigable.

Over the next few days, we'll be celebrating what they've added up to.
Big numbers coming on 31 July. 👀

22/06/2026

It's not a war on aggregators. It's resilience.
That was the closing line of last week's post, and the one that generated the most conversation.
A few asked the honest follow-up:
What does resilience actually look like in practice?

Resilience starts with a layer, not a leap. Most of the operators we work with don't drop aggregators on day one. They add 10–20% of weekly shifts run through their own freelancer pool, schedule, and payment flow.

That layer changes three things immediately:
• When commission structures change, you're less exposed.
• When your category gets deprioritised in the algorithm, not all of your orders go down with it.
• When contract renewal discussions come around, you have more options than before.

But the more interesting part is what happens over time.
As operators become more comfortable managing their own workforce layer, they often expand it.
What starts as a small operational hedge gradually becomes a larger part of the business.

The aggregator doesn't leave the mix. Its role in the mix does.
It becomes one channel among several, rather than the only channel.

And that's really the point.
The destination isn't "fight the aggregator."
It's stop having your business model decided by them.

That's the workforce layer Gigable was built for.
A layer operators can grow at their own pace, while maintaining visibility and control over how work gets done.

The platform battle is loud.
The operator response, again, is quieter - and longer-running than the headlines suggest.

But from what we see, it's already happening.

15/06/2026

The delivery consolidation story moved fast this quarter.

In April, Uber held roughly 7% of Delivery Hero.
By May, that stake had increased to 19.5%.
Then came a formal takeover approach valuing Delivery Hero at around €10 billion.

Some industry commentators are calling this the next phase of consolidation in delivery.
The headlines call it consolidation.

Operators we work with read it differently.
A reminder of how much of their operation now sits on infrastructure they don't control.

The aggregator value exchange has shifted.
In return for demand, operators increasingly hand over:
• 15–30% of order value in commission, and the true cost can be significantly higher once commissions, promotions, payment fees and marketplace discounts are factored in.
• Customer relationships and repeat-order data
• Brand experience at the doorstep
• Visibility and ranking determined by platform algorithms

That trade made sense when aggregator scale was the only way to reach customers, and the workforce layer was too messy to run in-house.

Today, the picture looks different.
A UBS consumer survey reported by Nation's Restaurant News found that 76% of customers would prefer to order directly from restaurants rather than through a third party.

The demand has always preferred the direct relationship.

What's interesting is how operators are responding.
Not through manifesto posts.
But by quietly building more control around the parts of the operation they can own:
• Their own freelancer pool
• Their own shift scheduling
• Their own payment processes
• Their own operational records
From what we see in our own customer base, this usually starts at 10–20% of weekly volume and grows from there.

The platforms themselves have noticed.
DoorDash completed its acquisition of Deliveroo.
Uber Direct, DoorDash Self-Delivery, and Grubhub Self-Delivery are now products specifically for restaurants that want to run their own drivers while staying on the marketplace.

The biggest platforms in the industry increasingly recognise that many operators want more control over the workforce layer, even as the platforms themselves continue to consolidate.

This isn't a war on aggregators.
It's resilience.
When part of your operation runs on infrastructure you control, every platform decision matters a little less.

That's the layer Gigable was built for.
Helping operators run their own workforce operations with full visibility on every shift, no agency markup, and records that build themselves as the work happens.

The platform battle is loud.
The operator response is quieter.
And it's already underway.

Sources in the comments.
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31/03/2026

Ever tried pulling together clear staff records when you actually need them?

In most restaurants, it’s not because people are doing things wrong.

It’s because day-to-day operations are split across different places:
• shifts confirmed over WhatsApp
• time worked tracked informally
• payments handled separately

It works until you actually need to pull everything together.
That’s when things start to get messy.

What we’re seeing more now across hospitality teams is a shift in how they operate:
→ shifts are logged
→ time worked is tracked
→ payments are linked directly to completed work

So records are created naturally as part of day-to-day operations without extra admin.

The result?
If Revenue ever asks, the records are already there.
All in one place as part of how the business runs.

No digging. No backtracking.
Just a more structured way to run operations, and a much easier way to stay compliant.

If you’re looking at this in your own setup, feel free to reach out - happy to share how other teams are approaching this in practice

19/03/2026

Getting paid on time matters.

To help freelancers understand how Gigable payments work, we’ve put together a simple guide explaining the full payment process, from when a business approves a gig to when the payment reaches your account.

The guide includes:�
• How the payment process works�
• Typical payment timelines�
• What may affect payout timing�
• What to check if a payment seems delayed

Read the full guide here 👉

Getting paid on time matters to freelancers, and we want to make sure both businesses and freelancers clearly understand how the Gigable payment process works.